HELLO TO ALL!!!... ESPECIALLY TO MY CARSON COLTS (HAS PRODUCED 22 NFL PLAYERS!). YE ‘OL CAPISTRANO VALLEY COUGARS & SAN CLEMENTE TRITONS!!! SOME COOL CARSON COLT -CVHS COUGAR & SCHS TRITON NEWS FOR YOU AND OF COURSE BLASTS FROM THE PAST!!! PEOPLE ALWAYS ASK ME “WHERE I COACHED”...SO... I COACHED “MY LIFE BLOOD “ FOR OVER 23 (OF MY 30 YEARS.(OTHER YEARS AT SADDLEBACK COLLEGE, CARDINALS OFCANTWELL HIGH, WOLVERINES OFALISO NIGUEL HS., THEE STALLONS OF SAN JUAN HILLS HS) YEARS OF COACHING FOOTBALL & WEIGHT LIFTING OF THOSE BOYS! ..AT THESE “3” HIGH SCHOOLS..ALL IN THE SEMI FINALS THIS FRIDAY NIGHT!!! “CONGRATULATIONS”..THE “LABOR OF LOVE” OF ENDLESS HOURS OF COACHING HAVE PAID OFF!!! JUNA COLTS...“RUIZ”GOOSE..SALDANA & HEAD MAN MC CALL..AND TO CVHS “GENS” FORSTER , STAFF & COMPANY..AND TRITONS JAIMES..ORTIZ & STAFF !!! AT THE 3 HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE SEMI-FINALS THIS FRIDAY!: 1.CARSON HIGH...1971-1973 & 1976!..GREAT TIMES...FROM COACHING AND TEACHING (1ST PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHING JOB,,WELCOME BACK ELECCIRI!LOL)...COACHED WITH THEE LEGENDS COACH PAUL HUEBNER & GENE VOLLNOGLE (WINNINGEST COACH IN CALIFORNIA HISTORY IN 1990)..BOB SUEKAWA, JOE ORBILLO, JIM D’AMORE!...PROUD TO SAY..I HAD 1 BROTHER, 3 COUSINS , AND A BROTHER-IN-LAW WHO’S “SWEAT” DRIPPED ONTO THE “GENE VOLLNOGLE FIELD OF PLAY”...TWO..BEE FOOTBALL “PLAYERS OF THE YEAR”...TWO WHO MADE ALL MARINE LEAGUE, TWO WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALL LEAGUE AND ONE ALL-CITY PLAYER!!! OUR FAMILIA(THE LATE HERBY JASON& DAVID ELECCIRI,ERNIE AND THE LATE JOHNNY OJEDA,JOSE MEZA AND THE LATE “BEAR” NIETO!) DID “GOOD”TO ADD TO THE CARSON COLT LORE! (PIC OF KIM WIESE COACHES 1971 NITO VAN WIESE CARSON BOYS_MICHAEL WILSON ... 2.CAPISTRANO VALLEY HIGH..1977-1986..& 1992-96..MORE GREAT TIMES TEACHING & COACHING...WITH LEGENDS..HEAD COACH BILL CUNERTY, DICK ENRIGHT ,ERIC PATTON!!! AND ,ROBBIE SCHMITZ,DENNIS HARYUNG, ROY SCAFFIDI,JIM BERG, KEN GOLDSTONE, JOE WOOD,JIM GUDOWSKI, KEM LAWYER, BILL ROLFE, VERN MACKENZIE,,.. 1995 & 1996.. HEAD COACH DAVE BROWN, DEFENSIVE COORD.JEFF KELLEY AND A FINE STAFF! (COACHED MY ONLY BEGOTTEN SON DAVID JR. #98 BY HIS BUDDY #24 MALAEFOU MACKENZIE..JUNA COUGARS! PICS ATTACHED! 1992 CVHS 1996 3. SAN CLEMENTE TRITONS! 1987-1991..2011 & 12 (SHOT –DISC) ...COMING INTO A PROGRAM WHERE THE FRESHMEN HAD “1” WIN “9” LOSSES, AND SOPHS “2” WINS “8” LOSSES!....IN MY 4TH YEAR...WE WERE CLIMBING “MOUNT EVEREST”...GOT CLOSE..BUT SLID DOWN..BUT “WENT DOWN FIGHTIN!” AT THIS TIME IN 1987-90..THE SOUTH COAST LEAGUE STATED BY THE OR.CO . REGISTER WAS ‘THE TOUGHEST LEAGUE “IN OR’CO.AND THE STATE..(MUCH LIKE THE “TRINITY TODAY” BUT ALL HOME GROWN!) AS THE SOUTH COAST LEAGUE WAS RANKED 1,2,3 IN OR CO. UNPRECEDENTED IN 1990..EG..MISSION WAS BEATING MATER DEI 45-15..” MARCUS CRISHON” (SP) HAD ALMOST 200 YARDS RUSHING VS. MATER DEI..WHEN I LEFT THE GAME..AS WE WERE PLAYING MV THE NEXT WEEK AT THEIR HOMECOMING..BUT..WE HAD THEM 10-3 AT HALF.. CRISHON HAD 18 YARDS 1ST HALF..MY LITTLE BUT “STRONG POWERFUL & QUICK PLAYERS ..HIT EM HARD AND MADE EM FUMBLE!!! HOWEVER .3RD QT.WAS A FIGHT!!! 2 OF MY PLAYERS WERE KICKED OUT! MY ONLY 1ST TEAM ALL LEAGUE PLAYERS THAT YEAR..BOTH WAY PLAYERS..AND WITH AN ENROLLMENT OF 1600 STUDENTS THEN PICKINS WERE LOW...WELL IN “GREAT ATTEMPTS, IT IS GLORIOUS TO FAIL!”...SAID THAT TOO MANY TIMES...AS THIS LEAGUE IN 1990..FINISHED THE PRESEASON AGAINST MANY DIV. 1 TEAMS WITH 26 WINS 4 LOSSES! BOTTOM LINE..BEATING THE EL TORO JOHNSON BROTHERS., MV., CVHS STENSTROM,MARINOVICH , ETC... (ALL NFL QB’S) WAS A BATTLE...WE BEAT ‘TWO TEAMS WHO WERE UNDEFEATED CHAMPIONS FROM 2 OTHER LEAGUES! BUT NO WINS IN THIS LEAGUE..WITH 5 TEAMS IN TOP 10.....BTW..IN PIC ATTACHED SQUATTING 425 LBS.IS 1ST TEAM ALL SOUTH COAST MLBER JACK SALERNO..NOW A ‘SURGEON”! SO JAIME..I’M SO HAPPY YOU ARE POSSIBLY THE 3RD COACH IN SCHS HISTORY TO GET THE TRITONS INTO THE CIF-SS FINALS...AS SCHS HAS “NEVER HAD A CIF CHAMPION” YET! BUT YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH THOSE “STUBBORN” CVHS COUGARS FOR THAT CHANCE!!!....AS YOU WERE ONE..IN 1992..SO IT SHOULD BE AN “EPIC BATTLE”!!! MAY THE BEST TEAM WIN!!! DAVY SCHS MALAEFOU JUNA CVHS & SCHS..TWO PROGRAMS I WORKED MY LIFE BLOOD INTO! MAY THE BEST TEAM WIN!!! MOST IMPORTANTLY..”THE NEXT BEST THING TO PLAYING & WINNING..IS PLAYING AND LOSING”! AS YOU GOT TO PLAY THE GAME..DENIED TO MANY! COACH ELECCIRI SIGNING OFF! THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ A STORY....AS WE “NEVER KNOW IF WE’LL PASS THIS WAY AGAIN!” JUNA! WHO OR WHAT TEAM ARE YOU PULLING FOR!!??? MAY GOD ALMIGHTY BLESS YOU AND OUR TROOPS IN HARMS WAY! DAVID A. ELECCIRI SR! AND....***FROM AN EARLIER POST... David A. Elecciri Sr. with Manuel Nieto 5 mins CONGRATULATIONS 2014 CVHS COUGARS!!! YOU ARE THE 6TH FOOTBALL TEAM TO MAKE THE CIF-SS SEMI-FINALS IN COUGAR FOOTBALL HISTORY! 2 TEAMS WENT TO THE FINALS..AND WON IT! WON THE CIF TITLE..1980 & 1990..3RD TIME COULD BE A CHARM FOR THE MIGHTY COUGARS OF 2014!!! THE 1ST SEMI FINAL GAME WAS AT CVHS ..VS. THE EL DORADO GOLDEN HAWKS! IT WAS A COLD ONE..IN FACT THEE COLDEST 39 DEGREES!!!...VERY EXCITING, FOR A 2ND YEAR SCHOOL...RANKED AS HIGH AS 10TH IN OR.CO! SO BEST TO YOU ALL..WHATEVER YOU DO..I KNOW YOULL DO IT THE OL COUGAR WAY..GO DOWN FIGHTIN...LEAVING EVERYTHING ON THAT SCHS TRITON FIELD! NO REGRETS! THEE 12TH MAN THEE COUGAR TRADITION IS WATCHING FROM EVERYWHERE! HERE IS ONE OF YOUR ALUMS..WHO MADE IT BIG...CLOSEST CVHS COUGAR TO MAKING IT TO A SUPER BOWL.(1 GAME AWAY!).BLAKE SPENCE..RECORD SETTING RECEIVER FOR UNIV. OF OREGON..TO THE NFL WHERE HE BLOCKED A PUNT AND SCOOPED AND SCORED FOR THE NEW YORK JETS..IN A GLORIOUS ATTEMPT IN BEATING THE FUTURE SUPER BOWL CHAMPS DENVER BRONCOS!!! JUNA TO BOTH SPENCE BROTHERS AND ALL OF THE BROTHERS RELATED AND NON RELATED WHO PLAYED THEIR HEARTS OUT FOR THE CVHS COUGARS!!!...ALSO A PIC OF THE STAFF OF THE 1ST OUTRIGHT (NO TIES!) SOUTH COAST LEAGUE CHAMPION FOOTBALL STAFF! 1983! GEE 31 YEARS AGO! ALL EVERYTHING BURT CALL (CURRENT MATER DEI HEAD BASEBALL COACH) WAS OUR QB! ALSO WE HAD A 2 TIME PULITZER PRIZE WINNER FROM THE 1978 CVHS TEAM MICHAEL RAMIREZ, FOR HIS POLITICAL CARTOONS! David A. Elecciri Sr.s photo.David A. Elecciri Sr.s photo. Like} wotsearchprocessed=true data-reactid=.hp.1>Like · · Share
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